40 The Management and Treatment of the EEorse, 



fever which seized mankind in the years 1737 and 1743, 

 but now particularly attacked the horses in tiieir turn, 

 as may appear by a comparison of their respective 

 histories. It had appeared in England in November 

 and spread through all England almost in an instant, 

 and toward the end of the month began to abate. It 

 raged in Denmark at the same time, but did not reach 

 our horses in Dublin till its decline in England at the 

 time before-mentioned. It affected the horses in 

 Munster and Ulster almost if not quite as soon as in 

 Dublin, and there was scarce an instance of a horse in 

 the town or country but what had it. It seized the 

 horses like a violent cold with heaviness, loss of appetite, 

 cough, and laborious breathing, and then a profuse run- 

 ning at the nose and mouth of a digested or thick yellow- 

 greenish matter, upon which they become better in 

 England as well as here." In the epizootic of 1750 

 post-mortem appearances similar to those described in 

 1873 in the epizootic then raging, r p\ir r p%ira hemorrhagica, 

 were noted by an author named Osmore in u A Treatise 

 on the Diseases and Lameness of Horses" (London, 1766). 

 His words are, " On many of these I have made several 

 incisions ; I found in all ot them a quantity of extrava- 

 sated serum lodged between the skin and the mem- 

 branes." In the year 1758 the influenza was both 

 epidemic and epizootic in Great Britain. Dr. Kobert 

 Wytt, of Edinburgh, wrote — " A gentleman told me that 

 in the Carse of Gowrie (a large valley in Perthshire) in 

 the month of September, betore this disease was per- 

 ceived, the horses were more than usually affected with 

 cold and cough." In regard to the same year, Fleming 



